Recent content by Salem Straub

Hmm, appears I was wrong about that one... didn't notice this thread was a zombie. Nice emoticons on this forum, I forgot about that. :whistling:

A very interesting thread. I too believe that several of the great kitchen knife makers on this forum and in other places make knives not tangibly "lesser" in quality as tools than any of Kramer's. BK got famous a little while ago, an early superstar of kitchen cutlery and arguably still the...

Looks like Mr. Martell edited the post with pics to remove the tags and hide the pics? Membership level issue? I could be wrong...

Way to go Mike. Get to work!

Having just been to his website, there are some nice looking knives there, the grinds on several of which look pretty good on screen. The santoku is pretty odd... I do like some of his materials choices.

Actually, the grinding on the knife posted above doesn't look too hot to me... nice overall package, though.

Actually, it's OK to say "Voldemort" too, just takes some guts is all. I like Haslinger's grind lines. Graceful and kind of hard to do.

Maybe the blade could be programmed for safety to be unable to cut human or living meat. Believe me, rather I'd edit additions into my previous posts, but my slow browser speed precludes this.

Imagine science giving us a knife with an invisible "force field" blade of some type, capable of separating things at their atomic bonds. Actually, an invisible blade sounds scary. Perhaps we need a translucent generated force blade that cuts only at the edge. The blade could feel solid...

Very good thread, interesting points all. I've been thinking for awhile now that the custom knife industry is ready for advances in blade materials. Not that I want to work in anything other than steel, but that may be the future... I don't think ceramics, carbides, alloys like Tolonite and...

It's acknowledged by those who know me that I'm a nerd... This is thread drift though. I'd like to read the Carter book as well. I'd really like it if he disclosed a good way to buy paper steels in the USA!

Reinforcing my belief that banks are scum.

Two hours, 120 hours, what's the difference? Actually, one decimal point makes a BIG difference... so that's two hours per knife of cutting, or a whopping total of 24 hours a year cutting. My foot is now in my mouth! Nevermind about that then. I do really wish there was some sort of...

I'm unable to edit given my connection, so to explain the above: I thought originally that the author was Ed Fowler. Then, I was informed that the author was indeed Bill Burke. Then, while editing a later post so that it made sense, a half-edited draft was saved, which also did not fully make...

As for why he's doing all that cutting, your guess is as good as mine.